The metamorphosis of war / / edited by Avery Plaw.

• Superior document: At the interface, probing the bondaries ; v. 80
• TeilnehmendeR: Plaw, Avery.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Fighting For Peace: From the Social War to Armed Democracy /; Foucault and the Continuation of War /; Why There is No Such Thing as Political Terrorism /; The Legality of Targeted Killing as an Instrument of War: The Case of the US Targeting of Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi /; Insecurity by Impreciseness: Towards a Specific Concept of Security /; Towards an Enhanced Understanding of Diplomacy as the Business of Peace /; The Changing Ottoman Perception of War: From the Foundation of the Empire to Its Disintegration /; Youth and Peace: Alternative Voices in Lebanon /; The Correspondent’s Experience of War /; ‘Like a Phoenix from the Ashes’: The IRA as a Multi-Generational Movement and Its Relevance for the War on Terror /; Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright /; From Manifest Degradation to Latent Anticipation: Military Boredom in the First World War and Afghanistan /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1283656876; 9401208468
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Avery Plaw.

In the last few decades the practice, purpose and the very language of warfare have been radically transformed. This volume mobilizes the resources of a range of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities in combination with the insights of military practitioners to understand the metamorphosis of war.